zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - May 25 2008 | of, people, books
listening to this now. he makes a few decent brief points about prospects for the 2008 elections, the notion of the collective act, the emergence of new evental sites, and so on...the second part of the interview was aired on may 12.
edit: oh damn...i just read this from the transcript while the audio's downloading:
Quoted: Today’s legacy of that ’68 is alive. And, you know, they have in California, and now it’s spreading to Europe, a terrible thing called masturbation. People gather, you masturbate publicly, you’re not allowed to touch the other, and, of course, each one has to pay some money, which goes to politically correct causes and so on. And the idea, it’s like self-expression: you are alone, but in a crowd. This kind of—this is what I don’t like.
Quoted: Slavoj Žižek, the renowned philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist, joins us in our firehouse studio for a wide-ranging discussion. Žižek has been called "the Elvis of cultural theory" and is widely considered to be one of Europe's leading intellectuals. He has written more than fifty books and speaks to sold-out audiences around the world. [includes rush transcript]
zerohour | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 25 2007 | shopping, people, books
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